>"They offered me Wolverine in the first X-MEN movie, but the time just wasn't right", Crowe revealed "If you remember, Maximus in GLADIATOR has a wolf at the center of his cuirass, and he has a wolf as his companion at the beginning of the film, which I thought was going to be a bigger deal at the time. So I said "no", because I didn’t want to be "Wolfy the general" and then "Wolfy the other bloke," like, now I’m Mr. Wolfman? I can only do movies that have something to do with wolves? Frick that."
https://www.slashfilm.com/why-there-was-no-russell-crowe-wolverine/
What a fricking idiot.
You say that but how many wolf movies are made each year? He would have been out of work for most of his future career
wolverines are not wolves
'wolve' is literally in the name Wolverine
Because Wolverine, the character, is short and fierce. Like the animal, the wolverine. Which is not a wolf, nor related to a wolf. It's related to badgers, weasels etc.
A wolf-like badger
That's irrelevant, the association is there for the general public who also don't know what a wolverine really is.
>He would have been out of work for most of his future career
He would've been Wolverine.. a constant fan favorite and money maker as the lead of a franchise for 20 years before "retiring" gracefully only to be offered ridiculous sums of money to come back and save a dying franchise a couple years later with movie deals planned to at least 2026.
Also he couldve replaced Liam Neeson in The Grey and the movie would've had a better ending where he knocks the wolf out from an Irish fighting stance.
Doesn't sound all that bad.
Not at all, people get typecast in roles all the time.
Look at michelle rodriguez typecast as "touch chick" from her very first movie, which she actually doesnt mind.
Or ryan renolds typecast as "that smartmouth guy" from whatever he got it from, he is smartmouth in every movie since, well nearly, he did voices and free guy where he wasnt doing his shtick but everything else I seen him in he is doing it.
Crowe wasnt such a big actor yet then either, gladiator was his big movie that made him a star.
>touch chick
That's what she does alright
Yeah she genuinely said she doesnt mind the typecast, its fine for her, plus imagine its not exactly thespian levels of acting so easy paycheck.
She got her break from an open casting for fight girl or girl fight forgot the name and has been touch chick in everything after.
My guess is she doesnt enjoy acting like Thespian actors so doesn't want to have range and practice character roles, accents etc, just wants to have fun and get paid, fair play to her imo.
Ryan actually isn't particularly typecast. The truth is that if you're a versatile actor you won't get typecast regardless of what you do.
Not sure about that and renolds is clearly typecast.
Its not so much of getting teh roles, like if di caprio went for a role he will get it most of the time on name alone, its getting your foot in teh door.
If crowe went to casting for some role he has never done, say cinderella man which is fricking KINO. Well if the casting agents think he is the wolf man, he will be typecast.
Then when they need a wolf man his agent will get a call.
Use the same logic with rodrigez, when they need a touch chick they call her agent but when they need a feminine woman and she went for the role they will not cast her...
Cannot become versatile if they dont give you the roles.
I actually thought of Gosling when I made that post. You're right about Reynolds. He has a few non-typecast roles like Buried and the Amityville horror but he's playing himself in 99 percent of his catalog.
>Gosling
I think gosling and well many actors who are trying to become actors for the prestige of acting, they specificallly branch out and try many different roles even shit ones for experience, and the experience.
Gosling is not toppest of top tier actor but i do expect he took that ken in the barnbie movie role for shhits and giggle experience.
He has gone from action, dramas and playing multiple different brooding men characters that I expect going to a flamboyant role was just a learning experience for him.
Its like when brad pitt said to that jonah hill, not jokingly "I would go for a serious actor"
I thing gosling is a serious actor (was child actor so was di caprio) where they are doing it for the love of the craft.
Rodriguez and guess reynbolds too are doing it for paychecks, so dont mind being typecast.
>michelle rodriguez typecast as "touch chick" from her very first movie, which she actually doesnt mind
Because it isn't typecasting. She refuses anything else.
You are now supposed to call him Michael Rodriguez.
Your homework on effective communication and empathy is late again.
Please try and keep up with the rest of the class.
That isn't why he is an idiot you moron, what a worthless blogpost
>blogpost
>a small paragraph is too hard for an ADHD zoomer phoneposting moron to read he calls it a blog
Does he know a Wolverine is an animal that isn’t a wolf at all?
Australians generally don't.
>"I had never read the comic book. I got the part. I didn’t really know anything about it. In Australia we don’t have wolverines. I didn’t know that was a real animal. I’d never heard of a wolverine. I thought it was a made-up animal. You know, like, he’s got man hands of steel, made up. And so I was passing as I was doing rehearsal at the IMAX theater, they had this documentary about wolves. And I was like, 'perfect, because obviously I’m a wolf, part wolf.'"
>“So I went to set with all these wolf moves and I was doing these moves, and the director said, ‘What are you doing?' And I said, ‘Well, I was just thinking wolves are always looking like this because they’re actually smelling, they’ve got their nose to the ground. That’s why they’re looking like this all the time.' And he goes, 'What do you mean a wolf?' And I said, 'Well, you know, Wolverine — I’m part wolf so...' and he goes, 'No, you’re a wolverine.'"
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/hugh-jackman-wolverine-wolves-x-men
That's funny. In some countries the character is translated as "werewolf"
In spain he's name is "Wolf cub"
Why? Why can’t they understand that a Wolverine is actually a real animal?
Wolverine is a stupid name for a non wolf animal.
Imagine an animal called piglet and saying its not a pig
>WOLF-ER-RINE? DAS AN ODD NAME, I'DA CALLED 'EM CHAZZWOZZERS
Funny. In the French localization they couldn't call him wolverine because the French for it sounds like glutton, so they changed it to serval instead.
Wild cat with long hair and claws. It kinda works I guess.
>carcajou
>sounding like glutton
huh
Serval is cooler anyway, it even matches his hairstyle
Glouton is such a moronic name.
Carcajou is the superior word etymologically speaking. It's a direct descendant from the Algonquin word for the creature and is a French corruption of it. There's a clear lineage established and remains somewhat true to the origin of the word for the animal that is native to the region the Algonquins and French fur traders/settlers inhabited
Glouton is pants on head moronic with no basis whatsoever.
Maybe but that's how that animal is called in French in everyday language, I'm not the one who made it so.
Pic related also had its common named changed due to a novel and barely nobody calls it by its original name in modern times
smug cat
The comic character is very short, like 5'3, that's what the name is about, he is small but strong and vicious with sharp claws, wolverines are known for being violent and taking down animals bigger than themselves. Jackman being tall was a bone of contention with fans at the time even though he's iconic in the role now.
Is a wolverine similar to an otter?
it's a weasel on steroids
>lways looking like this because they’re actually smelling
Hugh! Get your nose out of Marsden's ass! The cameras are rolling!
To be fair Jackman seems like an idiot
semi related: in the hungarian translation his name is "Farkas", which means wolf.
nobody cares about your shitty europoor language translation lmao
>mom I'm doing the epic trolling again! will dad comeback now?
seething
ok 🙂
hungary is in the acceptable part of europe so it's fine
he thought they said Wolferine
>What's that? Is that some kind of gay wolf? I'll pass
Based capeshit dabber
He's the best at what he does...and that's eating
Big Bad Wolf.
Aye that’s a big wolf
And foightin 'round the world!
>c'mon bam, knock it off
he made the right choice. image the amount of "wolf it down" food jokes he'd hear
Wolves are pussies compared to wolverines
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Love wolverine. He's a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.
I always assumed it's just a big ferret. Kind of based ngl.
>If you remember, Maximus in GLADIATOR has a wolf at the center of his cuirass, and he has a wolf as his companion at the beginning of the film
What we got here is an actor TOO wrapped up in this shit. I don't associate your companion as YOU and the wolf emblem doesn't make YOU the wolf
>I didn’t want to be "Wolfy the general"
LITERALLY the conclusion that only a homosexual self-absorbed actor would arrive at, not a single person thought this but him.He huffed one too many of his own farts.
Yeah Russel is a good actor but he's one of those who think very highly of themselves. Kind of ruins the appeal.
Better to be humble and then blow everyone away with a top tier performance.
Very fierce wolf.
>russel thought the character is called WOLFERINE
LMAO that silly pope's exorcist
Do you really expect a grown man to know about comic book characters?
The internet was arouns back then, yes?
Imagine turning down probably a 100 million because you cant be arsed to Yahoo something.
Should've AskJeevesed it
imagine wanting to be typecast as a fricking capeshit man for 5 sequels
I'd be more than happy to. The pay alone makes it worth it.
then you'd fit right in with the rest of the soulless homosexuals in hollywood like ryan reynolds
>imagine getting steady work
Whoa, how terrible
It actually helped Hugh Jackman considerably at one point
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>Wolverine
>Wolf
It's funny because Hugh Jackman was as unlikeable as possible as someone you can imagine as Wolverine... but over the years, it's like Hugh Jackman grew into him. Logan is the best comic book movie ever.
He made it work because he's a good actor. A lot of people didn't think Heath Ledger could pull off the Joker either, but despite his divisive performance, I don't think anyone expected it to what it ended up being.
to be*
In any case, purely from a vocal standpoint, Cal Dodd remains the best Wolverine
>it's like Hugh Jackman grew into him
no he's never fit the character and it's astonishing how hard people try to justify it
Not him but I disagree, he made it work. There's just a very narrow pool of actors you can use for Wolverine if you want it to be as accurate as possible.
I've imagined other A-listers in the role and it never seems quite right.
>. There's just a very narrow pool of actors you can use for Wolverine if you want it to be as accurate as possible.
>casts a 6'4'' lanky austrailian
The height isn't that important. He conveyed the right attitude. And truth be told, I don't think Russel would want to go through this kind of physical transformation.
He's not wrong. Up until the early 2000s there were a few actors who could sort of fit this niche but even back then there wasn't much choice. Clint Eastwood was old as frick and wouldn't have been able to bulk up either.
The fact that they considered Danzig, a non-actor, should tell you how hard of a casting it was.
Compared to what we could have had, or will likely get soon, I have a feeling it’s going to be the closest we’ll see before we can make our own movies with AI.
Hugh's take on the character is significantly more iconic than the source material. The character grew to fit him.
It's largely in line with the source material. He was just tall and they decided to quit acting like he's short at some point and stopped putting the other actors on shit to stand on.
more proof actors are trained monkeys whose opinion you shouldnt ever align with.
Good decision by him, capeshit is for moronic gays
you know he was in Man of Steel and Thor Love and Thunder right
Yeah but this was pre-capeshit and during capekino.
Wasn't there another guy playing Wolverine but he dropped out so Jackman being the last minute replacement had to bulk up during the shoot
Yeah, Dougray Scott.
I fricking hate Wolverine because it always reminds me of a time in school. We were doing some moronic activity and you had to name an animal starting with the last letter of the previous person's animal. Someone said crow before me and wolf had been taken so I said wolverine because there's not that many animals starting with w. My teacher claimed it wasn't a real animal. I got rather pissed off and even after going onto a computer to prove it she wouldn't admit she was wrong. I fricking hated that absolute cow.
I loved dabbing on teachers if I happened to know something more than they do.
didn't hugh jackman also not know that a wolverine was an animal
Some people want to do more than play Goyslopman and pursue legitimate acting outside of tights and leather bondage gear for children and teens. Why don't you guys get it?
Hugh did that though. Why don't you yourself understand that there's room in an actor's career for everything? Hell, you could've pursued multiple endeavors yourself if you weren't a lazy homosexual NEET.
Jackman was a fricking nobody prior to this and used it as a springboard to a film career. Crowe had been acting for close to 3 decades, just came off the biggest movie of the summer and then immediately went on to do A Beautiful Mind.
>Goyslopman
Bar none the easiest way to tell if a poster is non-white is if he used this lingo
It's more directly tied to intelligence. I've seen white people using it on social media. Actual white people.
>NPC meme of the month is actually a sign of intelligence gyuize
Let me reiterate, ESL third worlders and certain inbred "whites"
>NPC meme of the month is actually a sign of intelligence gyuize
You're actually fricking moronic if that's what you got from my post. I was stating on a veryatter of fact way that only fricking dumbasses or otherwise heavily neurodovergent people follow the herd when it comes to whatever the flavor of the month buzzword is. You don't exactly know the color of someone's skin when they use that moronic memespeak but you know they're a fricking dunce for a fact.
>Oh shit logic and facts what do I do!?
Post eyes, shitskin.
Eye color is the least viable way to tell someone's race. Skin is a lot more important since blacks can have blue eyes.
The surrounding skin is a dead giveaway but you're right that can happen. Even so, you can just tell the difference because they look so unnatural. It's always the same kind of blue in the blacks unless they're actually albino.
>Post a freckled skin blue eye
>It can actually be a Black person
Trust nobody, not even yourself
>Post eyes, shitskin.
Anyone who uses "goyslop" as a phrase is a moron. Wherever they're from. It's an announcement that they will take up whatever the latest meme insult is and repeat it like they've said it all their lives until the next meme insult picks up.
He complained about memespeak while using memespeak. He probably came here right when the NPC trend started so thinks it's "okay" because it's an OG meme to him. It's really telling and you see it all the time. Look at his chudpost reply for example, he is part of the problem he's complaining about.
There's 36 post ITT, dumbass. I wasn't the only person who replied to whoever you're replying to now.
posters*
You don't need to correct obvious typos dude. Anyone with a 3 digit IQ can tell the difference between someone making a genuine mistake and someone who doesn't fully comprehend the English language, and they won't use it as some "gotcha".
You overrate people's intelligence
>Anyone with a 3 digit IQ
I don't think he qualifies.
I'm trans btw
Good for you. I don't see what this has to do with the discussions here though.
you replied to your own comment 4 times a row, are you okay?
I'm not, I already mentioned I'm trans :^)
Black person you better post that (boi)pussy
sorry haha, im used to do it because on reddit they always downvote me for typo's
Go back there
You seem truly confused lol
>There's 36 post ITT, dumbass.
>He complained about memespeak while using memespeak. He probably came here right when the NPC trend started so thinks it's "okay" because it's an OG meme to him. It's really telling and you see it all the time. Look at his chudpost reply for example, he is part of the problem he's complaining about.
Intonation isn't translated in text. Your post could be perceived in a variety of ways. Doesn't matter because I agree with what you're saying here.
>insult capeshit
>N-N-NO! YOURE ESL!
It's the trademark of an ESL because it's only ever tied to western properties
Go search the word goyslop on twitter or instagram, you'll see every skin color.
Yeah but it's almost always people who are embarrassed by the west and fellate trashy ESL media even though it's worse than, say, American blockbusters.
Schlomo is afraid
>legitimate acting
He played Zeus though, in a rather insulting depiction of him
He played Kal-El's dad too. Actors have a big ego until it's time to pay the monthly rent to their next yacht or sports car.
Russell Crowe has made many shit films in his career.
The most insufferable pretentious fricks are tards who think only homosexual dramas are "legitimate acting".
looking into the camera and winking and making a quip is not """acting"""
Noah was a good film and I'm tired of pretending it isn't.
Tenderness was Crowe's last kino.
>oi mate not a fricking wolf again u hear me? fok off!
I don't think it would've worked either way. Even if he channeled Clint Eastwood energy, he'd need to get into much better shape.
>it's another "OPs thread fails to generate meaningful discussion so he begins shitposting like a child to incite a response" episode
Nah, not gonna bump it. MMMMMm.
It generated discussion for a while until some weirdo started making nonsensical posts.
Yeah but no need to lean in to it the threads a lost cause.
t. molested as a kid
speaking from experience?
no, you just give off those vibes
i wasn't, but it's telling you people always thinking about it touching children
then stop thinking about touching children
I see horses on his shirt. wtf is he talking about never once ever associated Gladiator with wolves, I don’t even remember him having a wolf or dog.
Based blind amnesia moron
he's right tho, look at OP's pic
I agree, same for Jackman he never wears the black suit in the Xmen movies, look at pic related
moron
Hugh was the perfect pick
Nothing will beat the vampire guy getting kicked out as Aragorn
That would be the greatest casting KWAB of the century
In retrospect Stuart Townsend would've have worked for Aragorn at all, I don't know why they wanted him.
>Cyclops relegated to useless side character instead as a main character
>no Gambit and Jubilee, they placed Gambit in the boomer prequel instead of the present
>NO I WILL NOT SHAVE MY HAIR DESPITE MY CHARACTER IS A BALD GUY ALL THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE
Why is he an butthole?
>assaults journalists
>dabs on capeshit
God bless him